Samir Kuntar

Samir Kuntar (1962-29 July 2015) was a Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) leader. He was responsible for the 1979 Nahariya raid that killed 4 Israelis, including two children, before being captured; after being released by Israel in a prisoner swap in 2008, he was killed in a drone strike by the Israeli Air Force during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Samir Kuntar was born in 1962 to a Druze family in Lebanon, and he had a rough upbringing; his mother died when he was a boy, his father moved to Saudi Arabia, and Kuntar was left with his father's second wife in the village of Abey. At the age of 14 he dropped out of school and headed to militant camps run by Palestinians, joining the Palestine Liberation Front terrorist group. On 22 April 1979, during the Lebanese Civil War, he led a raid that killed four Israelis, including two children. He was captured by Israel and sentenced to several life sentences, but in 2008 he was released in a prisoner swap. When he arrived at Beirut with other Lebanese prisoners, he was greeted by President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Speaker of the Parliament and Amal Movement leader Nabih Berri, several Muslim and Christian clerics, some Lebanese MPs, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. On 29 July 2015 he was killed in an Israeli Air Force drone strike on his car in the Golan Heights along with some Hezbollah and National Defense Forces fighters.